By the time Ben Roethlisberger went down with a season-ending elbow injury in the middle of week two last year, we already learned that it wasn’t necessarily an issue that came up out of nowhere. Earlier this offseason, the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback acknowledged that it stems back to a small tendon tear that he has dealt with through most of his professional career, and that managing the pain had simply become part of the job.
Speaking to Pat Kirwan earlier this evening on SiriusXM Radio, however, he admitted that the pain he felt at the beginning of this year was different.